Player profile · BLB / MLH

Dave Minor

Dave Minor advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#191

24.6 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#219

24.6 average league finish

Career Value#1247

171 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Dave Minor ranks #191 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #24.3. His full-career value ranks #1247, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Dave Minor's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Dave Minor ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Cumulative Dominance Margin0.0

Standard deviations across scoring seasons

Career Composite24.6

Equal average of Best 3, Prime 5, and Best 10 league finishes. The overlapping windows make this explicitly peak-weighted. Lower is better.

Best 3 weight: 63.3%
Score: 24.6
Qualified seasons: 2
All-time rank: #191

Strongest seasons

Every season

Dave Minor advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

Season	Team	Age	GP	MP	Era-centered box impact	Impact Rate	Rate rank	Season Value	Value percentile	Evidence
1952–53Historical Defense Estimate	BLB/MLH	30	59	1,610	+0.45	71.3	#28	72.7	61st	Modeled
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	BLB	29	57	1,558	+1.13	80.0	#20	98.7	71st	Modeled

Career movement

Dave Minor's career impact by season

Peak +1.13 in 1951–52 · 2 seasons · 3,168 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutesModeled estimate

Across-era box estimateWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 2 seasons

Only the first 2 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Compare with

Dave MinorDanny Finn

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Dave Minor

The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

PG · All-Time Career #276

Danny Finn

91%

start match

87% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 1953–54 SG · All-Time Career #1400

Brandin Podziemski

90%

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80% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 2024–25 SG · All-Time Career #968

Paul Graham

90%

start match

87% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 1991–92 PG · All-Time Career #222

Ron Sobie

90%

start match

84% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 1957–58 PG · All-Time Career #1926

Pablo Prigioni

89%

start match

82% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 2012–13 SG · All-Time Career #221

Bob Donham

88%

start match

93% season match · 1951–52 ↔ 1953–54

How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →